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I have a similar problem on RedHat 9 with gcc 3.2.2. Note that the error occurs in the same function, but that the thing that actually causes the compiler to fail is in a different place. I reported this same problem for 0.8.4-test2. I know that the error is probably in gcc, but since it seems to af...

If you launch mozilla from the command line and don't pipe stderr to /dev/null, you should get debug messages on the command line which should help you figure out what's going on. At least, this is what I'd expect; I've only used the VLC ActiveX control so far for web browsing and that's the way it ...

You need the LIVE555 library:
http://www.live555.com/

Scott

Can you play any files with those encodings (DIV3, DIVX, etc...) in a different container (like MOV) or as an elementary stream? MPEG1/2 just proves that your MPEG1/2 codecs are installed properly; if you can play using a different container or as elementary streams, the problem would seem to be in ...

Using gcc 3.2.2 on RedHat 9, I get: if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -DSYS_LINUX -I../../include `top_builddir="../.." ../../vlc-config --cflags builtin i420_rgb_mmx` -Wsign-compare -Wall -pipe -MT libi420_rgb_mmx_a-i420_rgb16.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/libi420_rgb_mmx_a-i420_rgb16.Tp...

Is there any update on this? Has anyone else confirmed this issue? If there's anything I can do to help resolve this, I'd very much like to know.

Thanks,
Scott

I may have found the problem. VLC doesn't seem to handle MPEG-4 ES streams with B-frames well. I get the same playback problems when playing FFMpeg encoded ES files containing B-frames. http://www.neon.com.tw/download/capote.m4v Here is an MPEG-4 ES file transcoded from a movie trailer on Apple's tr...

So the file I posted doesn't play for you in VLC at all? It plays for me in VLC 0.8.2, but with the aforementioned error messages. VLC 0.8.1 hangs after creating the window. I thought that this error message is what you meant by "if I feed this stream into VLC, it doesn't even recognize it as a...

In the m4v demuxer's Open function, there is this check: if( p_peek[0] != 0x00 || p_peek[1] != 0x00 || p_peek[2] != 0x01 || p_peek[3] > 0x2f ) { if( !b_forced ) { msg_Warn( p_demux, "m4v module discarded (no startcode)" ); return VLC_EGENERIC; } msg_Warn( p_demux, "this doesn't look l...

Thanks for the analysis. Just curious, how did you determine the movie's actual framerate? I guess you looked at the VOL to get the VOP time increment resolution and then looked at the actual increments in the VOP headers; is that right? What I still don't understand is if the problem is with the AV...

Can VLC play MPEG-4 video elementary stream files? If so, I haven't been able to figure out how to do it after parsing all of the help documentation and searching the forums. Currently, VLC just guesses that my file is an MPEG-2 file, which is of course wrong. Any tips would be appreciated.

Scott

I just got this same error using 3.2.2 on RedHat 9.0 when trying to build 0.8.4-test1. I've posted my config.log here:
http://www.neon.com.tw/download/config.log

Scott

I agree that FFMPEG has great MPEG-4 support. However, ffplay and MPlayer don't give me these errors, even with -lavdopts turned on, so VLC seems to have an issue here. What I really want to do is make sure VLC can receive RTP streams of this data and when playing over RTP, these decoding problems a...

Thanks for your response. This file is encoded with MPEG-4 ASP, not H.264. I first tried vlc-trunk from svn, but bootstrap fails with: configure.ac:226: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. co...

I will upload a file named pr-cif-384k.avi to the ftp sample server when it's working again (traceroute takes me all the way to gw-bbvideolan.via.ecp.fr (138.195.134.250) and then I get the dreaded * * * until timeout). For now, I've placed the file on our webserver at: http://www.neon.com.tw/downlo...